WASHINGTON - It was late Friday night, and the legislature on the place are for the period. Committee of the room, she wailed away, it will voteon the process to move the historic health care legislation. Less than attempt a word, his office, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi desperately to be a problem, the Democrats for the generation of polluted - solve the abortion.
After hours of heated talks, the people she was trying to convince — some of her closest allies — burst angrily out of her office. Her attempts at winning them over had failed, and Ms. Pelosi, the first woman speaker and an ardent defender of abortion rights, had no choice but to do the unthinkable. To save the health care bill she had to give in to abortion opponents in her party and allow them to proposebarring any insurance plan that is purchased with government subsidies from covering abortions.
The restrictions were necessary to win support for the overall bill from abortion opponents who threatened to scuttle the health care overhaul.The results of that fight, waged heavily over two days, were evident as one liberal Democrat after another denounced the health care plan because of abortion restrictions, even though they were likely to hold their noses in the end and vote for the bill itself.
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